As a family medicine physician, you likely see patients of all ages with a variety of acute and chronic problems. You juggle myriad activities as you diagnose and treat patients and perform countless tasks while managing your busy practice. For these reasons, the Family Medicine board review you choose needs to provide the most time-effective solution possible for engaging in lifelong learning, meeting continuing education requirements, and successfully preparing for the ABFM exam or Family Medicine Longitudinal Assessment (FMCLA). That’s why we developed NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review with busy clinicians like you in mind.

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Authentic Adaptive Learning Proven to Work

Other programs that claim to have Adaptive Learning, fall short. NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review uses comprehensive adaptive learning technology to quickly identify areas of knowledge where you have gaps or need reinforcement. Unlike other board review programs, it delivers more of what you need to learn and less of what you already know, saving you valuable study time.

It does this by first assessing your existing knowledge and then leveraging machine learning to create the perfect learning path for you. This AI-driven technology was designed based on the best evidence about how people absorb and retain knowledge. The system even recommends when a learning “refresh” is in order to help prevent memory decay. This allows you to maximize your time preparing for the Family Medicine Board Exam or FMCLA, while also keeping your clinical knowledge sharp so you can deliver optimal patient care.


Most Comprehensive Family Medicine Question Bank

NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine has the most comprehensive family medicine question bank available with over 5,000 questions mapped to the ABFM blueprint. Our gold-standard questions are like the ones you’ll see on the ABFM exam or FMCLA, and are relevant to clinical practice to help you handle the real-world challenges you face every day.

NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine questions are:

  • Just like questions you’ll see on the ABFM Exam and FMCLA, so you can practice answering questions effectively and within imposed time limits.
  • Based on the best evidence available with access to further reading in guidelines, reviews, cases, and research including links to any cited articles from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), normally available only to subscribers
  • Created and rigorously reviewed by our panel of nearly 300 clinicians from leading medical centers, as well as dozens of primary care and subspecialty expert reviewers
  • Carefully vetted and edited by physicians who are educators and active clinicians with firsthand knowledge of the day-to-day challenges that you face

Best Family Medicine Board Review Questions

The best family medicine board review questions leverage the power of the Testing Effect. Answering questions about new information primes your brain to receive and store it. And answering questions that require you to recall information you have previously learned strengthens connections to it. Research shows that by answering questions about new or previously learned information, you’ll more readily retrieve it from your stored memory in the future. NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine questions are designed to use the testing effect to strengthen your learning and make future recall and retrieval easier.

How Many Questions are in NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review?

NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review has 5,011 multiple-choice, single-best-answer questions based on 3,111 unique learning objectives — the largest Family Medicine question bank available. In the same format as the ABFM Board Exam and FMCLA, our board review questions include:

  • The patient vignette or question scenario
  • The lead-in or the question itself
  • The answer options, which include one correct answer and several distractors
  • Additional short and fill-in-the-blank questions based on the same learning objective as the case-based questions

Earn Credits While You Learn

When you use NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review, you can earn up to 348 AAFP Prescribed credits and 348 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Plus, you’ll have access to easy reporting by date that lets you keep track of what you’ve earned.

Get the Feedback You Need to Continuously Improve

Since NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review tracks and reports your progress and performance, you’ll be able to:

  • Set study goals for achieving specific milestones
  • Find out how you’re performing and whether you’re on schedule to meet your goals
  • Identify which topics are most challenging for you, as well as topics within each specialty that need more focus
  • Define the learning objectives you need to work on

Reports also allow you to see how you’re doing by discipline, decision focus, patient age, location, and urgency of care, and compare your actual performance with the confidence levels you select while answering questions. This helps to strengthen metacognitive skills, so you are more aware of when you are over or under confident. Improving your metacognition will help you to increase your confidence so you can pass your Family Medicine exam or the FMCLA.

Develop Your Family Medicine Knowledge Base

Watch a video introduction to NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review by Senior Reviewer Mark T. Nadeau, MD, MBA, FAAFP.

Take Family Medicine Practice Exams to Build Confidence for Exam Day

NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review offers two practice exams as another measure to track your performance and help you prepare for your exam. The practice test questions are designed to align with ABFM exam questions and to common, relevant, and challenging clinical scenarios.

Here’s how NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review practice exams prepare you for exam day:

  • Each exam offers 60 questions in a timed two-hour online test that mirrors the format of the ABFM exam, so you’ll be ready for the real thing.
  • A pause feature allows you to step away if you want to take a break.
  • Practice exams include key elements of feedback once you complete the exam:
    • How you performed in each focus area
    • How your performance compared with others
    • Important learning points
    • Detailed feedback and citations
  • You can use the practice exams at any point in your exam preparation, depending on how you work best—it’s up to you!
    • Take an exam before you begin preparing to evaluate and gain insight on where to start learning in the product.
    • Try the practice exam after initial studying to assess yourself partway through the learning.
    • Use the practice exam at the end of your preparation to get your timing down the week before your ABFM Board Exam.
  • See how your results compare with those of your peers.


Online Family Medicine Board Review: Learn Whenever and Wherever You Want

NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review doesn’t just adapt to your performance — it also adapts to your lifestyle. You can choose to learn in bite-sized increments by answering as many or few questions as you like rather than wading through books with large chapters and lengthy reviews. This means you can fit learning in anytime whenever and wherever is convenient for you — whether it’s in line at the supermarket, in the parking lot while waiting for your child’s soccer practice to let out, or during an unplanned minute between patients.

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Pain Management and Opioids CME Module

Your purchase of NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review includes  a bonus Pain Management and Opioids module which will enhance your knowledge about opioids, so you can feel more confident helping your patients manage pain appropriately. The Pain Management and Opioids module can also help you earn your state mandated CME.

Get started with NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review and accelerate your learning today!

Accreditation Statement

The Massachusetts Medical Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Medical Association has an agreement of mutual recognition of Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits with the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), the accreditation body for European countries. Physicians interested in converting AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to UEMS-European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education CME credits (ECMECs) should contact the UEMS at mutualrecognition@uems.eu.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The Massachusetts Medical Society designates each enduring material for the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ listed below. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review: 349 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

AAFP Prescribed Credit

The AAFP has reviewed NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review and deemed it acceptable for up to 349.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credits. Term of Approval is from 02/01/2024 to 1/31/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AAPA Category 1 Self-Assessment CMEAAPA CME Credit (NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review)

This activity has been reviewed by the AAPA Review Panel and is compliant with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 20 AAPA Category 1 Self-Assessment CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation. Approval is valid from 5/1/2023 to 4/30/2024. AAPA reference number: CME-209251.

For NCCPA certification maintenance ONLY: NCCPA will now apply an additional 50 percent weighting when these self-assessment credits are logged for NCCPA certification maintenance purposes. PAs should log up to a maximum of 20 AAPA Category 1 Self-Assessment CME credits, as the additional weighting will be automatically applied by NCCPA.